All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Colin Berriman: You can check the status of the transmitter via this site, but if its working, its you. Check the rest of the muxes, it sounds like your system is going, and that mux has gone first.
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T. Needham: Its not just having an HD receiver, your transmitter also has to be able to transmit that mux.
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William Bruce: Check the transmitter on this site - if its fine, its you. Probably a break somewhere on your aerial system.
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nick: Check the transmitter - if its fine, its you. Probably a problem with your system, and that mux is the first one to go.
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neil: If your using Mendip, then it has Com7, so you should be getting Talking Pictures, BBC4 HD, C4 + 1, etc. Unless you havn't got an HD tuner, in which case, your going to get zip. If you do have an HD tuner, then check signal strength - you might have a problem with your system, and since that mux is 25% less powerful than the rest, it might have vanished first.
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Richard Cooper: Have you all noticed how much more spam this site is getting, even compared with a year ago. Any ideas why?
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StevensOnln1: I have that problem with my Sony recorder - the tuner is so sensitive that it picks up another three transmitters, but sometimes latches onto a programme from the wrong one, thus messing up the recording.
I partially solved it (or at least made it slightly better) by using an attenuator, or rather a series of them. It will still bring channels up in the 800's, but apart from BBC1, it wont do anything about them.
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lee: If the recorder has HDMI, and the TV has HDMI....just use HDMI. And the loop the aerial through via the recorder to the TV.
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Malcolm: The Foxsat is around 4 years old or more, and Humax can only do so much - Iplayer gets rewritten every so often, and there reaches a point where Humax can't all that much any longer, even if they wanted to. My 4th generation Ipod Touch has the same problem - the old Iplayer software is simply no longer supported by the BBC.
The good news is that there is a large range of devices you can attach to your TV at relatively low cost to get Iplayer, etc. Chromecast, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Firestick and Now TV will all allow you to access Iplayer and lots of other content, plus Blu-Ray players, recorders, games machines,etc.
I have Now TV (Plus an Xbox, Sony Blu ray and an HD box) which all get me Iplayer on my old TV, but if I was recommending one device (assuming you already have a Blu Ray), the Roku would be a good start. The Stick is 39 on the high street (sometimes cheaper), has a proper remote, lots of content, and you dont have to sign up for anything. It just connects via HDMI into the back of your TV.
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Saturday 30 July 2016 8:47PM
Clive Walker: Check your signal levels and what transmitter your tuned into. Put your postcode into the site, and you'll get lots of useful links, including the compass bearings and channels of various transmitters - you might have scanned the wrong one.
And of course if your losing a mux, check signal levels - you might have a problem, and its knocking out some muxes, but not all.